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Photos to post on a chilly Monday - a summer's day from several years ago for my Human Nests project. The project is a study of how we might be as naked humans in our environment - vulnerability and strength.

More information at https://starshumansnests.com/

#nakedInNature #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Naked #NakedProtest #ColourPhotography #ColorPhotography #Maize

Photo of Tiffany for my Human Nests project - how are we as naked humans in our environment.

Taken at #NewhavenFort December 2020.
https://starshumansnests.com/humannests/newhaven-ovingdean/

#NakedHuman #NakedProtest #Sea #SeaScape #Landscape #NakedInNature #homeless #Homelessness #NonSexualNudity #Sky #cloud #artPhotography #ScenicPhotograpthy #WinterSky

Amma for my Human Nests project -

[Edit.. I found out that Amma died just recently 😞 - so sad - I'm glad we made these wonderful photos together as, as well as looking great, we had fun, lots of laughter - sleep well Amma xxx]

https://starshumansnests.com/

Strength and vulnerability in our environment.

#monochrome #blackAndWhite #Texture #NakedInNature #graveyard #homeless #nakedProtest #Nude #PhotoMastodon

https://starshumansnests.com/

Tiffany-Ann for my Human Nests project. The project aims to show how we are as naked humans in our environment - both strong and vulnerable, a part of nature and apart from nature.

#fotoMontag #PhotoMonday #ColourPhotography #Concrete #NakedInNature #Naturism #Homeless #NakedProtest #ColorPhotography #Nude #strength

Tiffany naked in a hole in a concrete wall for my Human Nests project https://starshumansnests.com/

Sue for my Ages project - fire dance.

https://starshumansnests.com/ages/sue/

#SocialConstructionOfAge #ageism #agePostive #bodyPostive #nakedProtest #burlesque #monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Joyful #NakedInNature #Human #FireDance

@ellasoul I'd really like Mastodon to be different in lots of ways to Twitter and to Instagram. Instagram has such a dominant role in the promotion of image based content now. But like everything #FuckZuck it's stuck in a stupid, sexist, patriarchal view of the world typified by its absurd bans of women's nipples and other body types it doesn't like.

Twitter allows nudity but an awful lot of it is just people reposting other people's images without permission or credit, or without the permission or knowledge of the subject.

Instagram constantly bans art/photos that include non-sexual nudity and imposes it's rules in more and more absurd ways making users self-censor until their work is 'nice' and 'bland' and inoffensive to it's advertisers.

But still, I get far more traffic to my website https://starshumansnests.com/ when I signpost to it from Instagram. But I mostly have to ruin my images with stupid censorship to avoid a ban.

Even so, I've posted, censored, non-sexual images of disabled subjects and has bans when similar images of non-disabled people have been allowed.

So, unless Mastodon picks up, I need to keep posting images in Instagram 😐

#FuckInstagram #DontDeleteArt #FreeTheNipple #NakedProtest #DisabledRights #BodyPositive #PhotoMastodon

@ceruleanarc

Really interesting post - and quite a rare one! I'm pleased to find it!

Age is a social construction. Discussions or references (they are endless and ever present) are far less often about how many years a person has been alive. What it's nearly all about is how we are expected to be - what is right/wrong at a certain age and it's mostly judgemental or putting others done or ourselves down.

It's nearly all negative... It's that way for people in their later teens and 20s trying to be taken seriously and being judged (and judging) about their appearance against absurd standards based on a model of 'beauty' that is shown continually but, in reality, is rare. It applies to people in our 40s to 60s being classed as having mid-life crises, to older people being seen as old or all right wing.

I'm sick of younger people feeling like they need to say they are older to gain respect and older people feeling pressure to look younger so as not to be treated as ugly or over the hill. There's far more to it than that obviously.

It's all bullshit.

I'm doing a photo project about it https://starshumansnests.com/ages/

I've set out some of these views and, sort of to illustrate them, I'm gradually adding photo sets of participants and their accounts of how/who they are right now. I'm hoping to get representatives of every year of life from 20 to 120.

It's revealing as I've asked people also to show how they present themselves and to show what their naked bodies happen to look like - there's far too few images of what most people actually look like. But it's not just the photos, it's their words too.

Thanks for your post.

#Age #Ageism #BodyPositive #AgePositive #FuckThePatriarchy #Equality #SocialConstruction #SocialConstructionOfAge #NakedProtest #SocialJustice